We come not to compel, but call again;
We come not to destroy, but edify;
Nor yet to question things already done;
These are forgiven; matters of the past;
And range with jetsam, and with offal, thrown
Into the blind sea of forgetfulness.

--_F. W. Farrar, D. D._

1364

One ounce of mirth is worth more than ten thousand weight of gloominess.

1365

Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.

--_Balzac._

1366

Most just it is that he who breweth mischief should have the first
draught of it himself.

--_Jemmat._

1367

CONSTANTINE AND THE MISER.

Constantine the Great, born 274 A. D., in order to reclaim a miser, took
a lance and marked out a space of ground the size of a human body and
said to him: "Add heap to heap, accumulate riches upon riches, extend
the bounds of your possessions, conquer the whole world, and in a few
days, such a spot as this, will be all that you will have."

1368

A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by
seeming rich.

--_Shenstone._

1369

_Misers._--If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable
living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his
fellow citizens, for the sake of accumulating wealth; "Poor Man," I
would say, "you pay too much for your whistle."

--_Benj. Franklin._

1370

No thoroughly occupied man was ever miserable.

--_Dutch._

1371

'Tis time enough to bear a misfortune when it comes without anticipating
it.

--_Seneca._

1372

Learn never to repine at your own misfortunes, or to envy the happiness
of others.

1373

Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it.

--_Cicero._

1374

Better a mistake avoided, than two corrected.

1375

I will not quarrel with a slight mistake,
Such as our nature's frailty may excuse.

--_Roscommon._

1376

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

--_Swift._

1377